Registration Opens for the 2007 Meridian Systems User Conference
FOLSOM, Calif. (November 9, 2006) – Meridian Systems®, a provider of enterprise project management software for optimizing capital projects, programs and facilities, announces registration for its 2007 User Conference. Taking place in beautiful San Diego, California, April 24-26, 2007 at the Hyatt Regency La Jolla, the conference is expected to draw more than 350 Meridian customers, business partners, and staff in forums for information exchange and professional networking.
Back by popular demand, the conference general sessions will be chaired by McGraw-Hill Construction and ENR consulting editor Scott Shuster. Shuster is a longtime correspondent of ABC News and a former producer of NPR's All Things Considered. Leader of dozens of CIO-only and IT industry events for BusinessWeek, Hewlett-Packard, COMDEX, Microsoft, IBM and many other organizations, Shuster will return to bring exciting and interesting discussions to the conference morning general sessions.
Tracks and Sessions
The 2007 User Conference offers 6 conference tracks that include more than 30 educational sessions.Conference sessions will be led by some of Meridian’s top staff and customer experts. Session highlights include:
- Advanced Prolog® and Proliance® User Certification
- In depth sessions on Prolog’s basic functionality for users of all levels looking to get the most out of Prolog
- Intermediate to advanced-level sessions for organizations that want to optimize their Prolog or ProjectTalk solution
- One-on-one sessions with Meridian customer support analysts and technical services consultants
- Spotlight on Proliance – Learn more about the Proliance solution including the platform, application suites, and business intelligence capabilities
- Best practice case studies on how other users are getting the most from Meridian products
- Demonstrations of various Meridian solutions and partner offerings
- To view all track sessions, visit the Meridian website at: http://www.meridiansystems.com/newsevents/uc2007/TracksSessions.asp
Registration Pricing and Additional Information
Registration is now open for interested customers at: http://www.meridiansystems.com/newsevents/uc2007/index.asp. Those who register between now and February 7, 2007 are eligible to receive an early bird discount of $200 off the standard conference registration fee of $1,095.00.
Speakers and Sponsors
Meridian customers are invited to submit a case study or project profile on how their organization is using Meridian products. Share best practices, lessons learned, or a project profile on how Meridian technology improved results at your organization. Conference speakers receive a significantly reduced conference registration rate.
Premier sponsors for the event include:
- Adenium Systems Inc. (Gold Sponsor) - is a software company built on the belief that the Internet is a powerful tool for searching, locating, and distributing information and that information is most useful to people when printed on paper.
- Dimension 5 Solutions, Inc. (D5) (Silver Sponsor) - offers end-to-end products and services for processing project-related data, including: email, fax, web, scanned documents, and data files.
- Microsoft Dynamics (Silver Sponsor) - is a line of business applications with strengths in project, financial and accounting solutions which provides powerful systems management designed to help construction organizations drive business success.
- Morpheus Technology Group (Silver Sponsor) - specializes in developing innovative solutions for integrating financial and project management applications.
- Plan Express (Silver Sponsor) - is a leading provider of construction documents, offering a complete solution for document management, printing and delivery.
Additional event sponsors include Exhibitor sponsors - Construction Imaging Solutions, Event 1 Software, and JumpStart Wireless.
A variety of sponsorship opportunities are still available to Meridian technology and business partners. Don't miss this once a year opportunity to increase your exposure to the Meridian user community of building owners and operators, construction and engineering companies. To learn more, visit the Meridian website at: http://www.meridiansystems.com/newsevents/uc2007/index.asp.
About Meridian Systems
Construction project management software from Meridian Systems allows building owners, construction and engineering firms, and government agencies to efficiently manage their capital projects, programs and facilities. Meridian has pioneered Infrastructure Lifecycle Management (ILM) technology that automates the Plan-Build-Operate project lifecycle, enabling building owners and operators to improve top-line revenue growth, while reducing capital project costs and schedules. Meridian has become the industry standard for successful construction project delivery, and is ranked as the market share leader for project management and collaboration software by Constructech magazine,1 and by the CFMA among general contractors larger than $101 million in revenue.2 Meridian provides construction project management solutions to more than half of the ENR Top 400 Contractors. For more information, call Meridian at (800) 850 2660, or visit: www.meridiansystems.com/pr110906.
1Statistics excerpted from the 2006 National Construction-Technology survey, Constructech Magazine.
2CFMA’s 2006 Information Technology Survey for the Construction Industry, sixth edition with the permission of the Construction Financial Management Association, Princeton, NJ, (609) 452 8000.
Meridian Contact:
Sue Watkins, Director of Marketing
swatkins@meridiansystems.com
